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What is a plow used for?
A plow is a device used to prepare the soil for planting crops. It is dragged behind a tractor, horse or oxen and digs a long groove in the soil called a furrow. soil in the furrow is thrown to one side and inverted.
How John Deere's cast-steel plow help prairie farmers?
They could now "tame the land". It was the first invention they got that allowed them to truly use the land as they wanted to.
What is a iron plow?
A plow made of iron. A plow is a farming implement (or "tool" for most of you) to turn over land and expose the soil for the first stages in preparing a field for seeding crops.
Why was the steel plow signifegent?
because it helped farmers farm there land
What hand tool can be used to plow?
A plow is used to plough. Other than that there is not much to do besides using a plow to plough. There are some bigger machines that can do things similar to the plow but the plow is the only hand tool used.
What is the origin of an acre?
from old English farmers. the amount of land an oxen could plow in a day.
Did The invention of oxen collar improved farming because oxen could plow much faster than horses?
No. It just made it easier to control the oxen as they were being used to plow fields and for the oxen to pull the plow, and it made it more efficient to be able to use more than one ox to use for plowing. But it never made oxen plow fields faster than horses do. Horses are always going to be faster and more high-stepping than an ox will ever be.
Is it true that the invention of the oxen collar improved farming because oxygen could plow much faster than horses?
yes
How could you describe a farmer who does not want to use oxen to plow his fields?
pro tractor
What was the purpose of the iron plow?
The purpose of the iron plow was to make it easier and more efficient to till the soil for planting crops. It replaced earlier wooden or stone plows and allowed farmers to work faster and more effectively in preparing their fields for cultivation. The iron plow also helped to break up tougher and more compact soil, making it more suitable for growing crops.
Where does the term acre come from?
Acre is a term for an approximate measurement for which a yoke and an oxen could plow in a single day
4 letter word for pulling a plow?
oxen
Mesopotamians used the plow to make their farmland more productive. What was necessary to use the plow?
the domestication of oxen
What animals do people in china use to plow fields?
oxen
Did the oxen collar improved farming because oxen could plow much faster than horses?
No. You are asking about the YOKE, not the collar. The yoke kept the oxen together without needing chains to keep the oxen together like with horses, plus it helped have better control of the oxen's heads. The yoke never made the oxen work faster than horses, because no matter what horses will always be faster than oxen, but it just helped with better control.
How did oxen and plow help Mesopotamian farmers?
it helped them with there transportation on the farm. they could take traillers of goods around the farm
What did sumerians invent for farming?
terrace farming
